Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rowe testified that he had only pretended to fire his .38-cal. revolver, but "Wilkins and Eaton both emptied their revolvers toward the automobile." As they sped away, Rowe noticed that the Liuzzo car still seemed to be moving along the road. "I said, 'The automobile is following us now. I believe you missed.'" Retorted Wilkins: "Baby Brother, I don't miss. That so-and-so is dead and in hell...
...postdeb, and then, calling herself Niki, turned into one of the nutty art world's most charming cashews. Refining action painting, which was supposed to spread the oils around, she hit the target in 1960 by attaching bags of paint to canvases, then blasting them with her .22-cal. rifle. Now that the quick-draw days are over, she has popped back into fashion with hairy sculptures tattooed with more images, inscriptions and plain gunk than any statue in the park. Her Sappho, lounging beneath a tree fruited with a skull, slouches like an Eve who has waited...
...national banking systems -feel the freest to criticize and sound alarms. The U.S.'s Martin, for example, keeps reminding Washington that the U.S. is dangerously close to inflation, and Lord Cromer has publicly lectured the Labor government. The finance ministers, on the other hand, are politi cal appointees who are less likely to pick a fight with their governments, but their greater awareness of political realities can be invaluable in international negotiations. The solid core of the moneymen-and the real heroes-are the senior advisers who have worked their way up through the monetary system, know its machinery...
...Curtis A. Hessler '66, of Leverett House and Wooland Hills, Cal., who has won the Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship, given annually to the member of the Junior Class "who shall have demonstrated his high qualifications both by intellectual achievement and by participation in the student activities of the college...
...Berkeley crisis and its myriad interpretations-and misinterpretations-were certain to linger long and spread far. Last week the Student Association at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland voted 72 to 66 to disassociate itself from Strathclyde's plan to award an honorary degree to Cal's President Clark Kerr. The students protested his "illiberal views over the rights of the students of the University of California to organize themselves on the campus." The Glasgow students had it all wrong. If anything, Kerr had handled the student rebellion too gingerly...